foul-up
- n an embarrassing mistake
- The police investigation into the calamity points more to a foul-up than foul play.
- But because of a foul-up in drafting the deepwater leases, 1,000 of them issued in 1998 and 1999 didn't contain the language lifting the exemption for higher prices.
- The marines' word for this is "jacfu"joint American-Chinese foul-up.